remember or switch off

[ostap77]

"Don't forget to switch off the light."

OR

"Remember to switch off the light."

Would the first sentence sound foreign?

 

[freezeframe]

"Don't forget to switch off the light."

OR

"Remember to switch off the light."

Would the first sentence sound foreign?

Both are fine.

 

[ostap77]

Both are fine.

I've been told that a native-speaker wouldn't structure his sentence like the first one and that it would be a bit slavic?
(according to a Ukrainian teacher)

 

[freezeframe]

I've been told that a native-speaker wouldn't structure his sentence like the first one and that it would be a bit slavic?
(according to a Ukrainian teacher)

Your teacher is overthinking it. Just because the Ukrainian sentence has a similar structure, it doesn't make the English sentence wrong.

BTW I would say "turn off" but "switch off" means exactly the same; not sure if this is a British-American difference

 

[riquecohen]

I've been told that a native-speaker wouldn't structure his sentence like the first one and that it would be a bit slavic?
(according to a Ukrainian teacher)

I agree with freezeframe in all of the above.
I wonder if the Ukrainian teacher thought that the first one sounded Slavic because you didn't use a definite article before "light."

 

[ostap77]

I agree with freezeframe in all of the above.
I wonder if the Ukrainian teacher thought that the first one sounded Slavic because you didn't use a definite article before "light."

It was with the definite article. I left it out while I was typing the post.

She meant the "don't....." thing.